AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Polaris 30 GP104
GPU variant Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006) GP104-150-KA-A1
Architecture GCN 4.0 Pascal
Foundry GlobalFoundries TSMC
Manufacturing process 12 nm 16 nm
Number of transistors 5,700 million 7,200 million
Die size 232 mm² 314 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Nov 15th, 2018 Oct 18th, 2018
Generation Polaris GeForce 10
Production Active End-of-life
Launch price 279 USD
Current price Amazon / Newegg
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews 36 in our database 117 in our database
Predecessor Arctic Islands GeForce 900
Successor Vega GeForce 20

Clocks

Base clock 1469 MHz 1506 MHz
Boost clock 1545 MHz 1709 MHz
Memory clock 2000 MHz 8 Gbps effective 1001 MHz 8 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 8 GB 6 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5X
Memory bus width 256 bit 192 bit
Bandwidth 256.0 GB/s 192.2 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 2304 1280
TMUs 144 80
ROPs 32 48
Compute units 36
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU) 48 KB (per SM)
Cache L2 2 MB 1536 KB
SM count 10

Performance

Pixel rate 49.44 GPixel/s 82.03 GPixel/s
Texture rate 222.5 GTexel/s 136.7 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) performance 7.119 TFLOPS (1:1) 68.36 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP32 (float) performance 7.119 TFLOPS 4.375 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 445.0 GFLOPS (1:16) 136.7 GFLOPS (1:32)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Dual-slot
Length 241 mm 9.5 inches 250 mm 9.8 inches
TDP 175 W 120 W
Suggested PSU 450 W 300 W
Outputs 1x HDMI3x DisplayPort 1x DVI1x HDMI3x DisplayPort
Power connectors 1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin
Board number C944-41

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (12_0) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader model 6.4 6.4
CUDA 6.1

Other Features

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